Eileene Harrison Beer: SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN: OBJECTS OF A LIFE STYLE. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux/ The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1975. First Edition. A very good hardcover book in full cloth in a nearly fine dust jacket: bottom edge of front board badly bumped with resultant stress to first section of the textblock—Ooop! Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
10 x 12 hardcover book with 214 pages and over 200 black and white photographs and 40 in full color of award-winning objects from all five Scandinavian countries: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Published by Farrar in association with The American-Scandinavian Foundation. A thorough survey of Scandinavian design, covering ceramics, wood & furniture, glass & crystal, textiles, jewelry & metals, and miscellaneous items. 40 finely-printed full-color photo illustrations on plates, hundreds of b/w photo illustrations; bibliography; index.
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Includes landmark works by Ulla Procope, Esteri Tomula, Friedl Kjellberg, Poul Kjaerholm, Arne Jacobsen, Kaj Franck, Birger Kaipiainen, Erik Hoglund, Oiva Toikka, Tapio Wirkkala, Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, Ole Wanscher, Carl Erik Ekselius, Eero Aarnio, Anti Nurmesniemi, Vicke Lindstrand, Timo Sarpaneva, Ritva Puotila, Kirsti Ilvessalo, Nanny Still, Stig Lindberg, Maija Isola, Johan Rohde, Henning Kopel, Kaj Bojesen, Georg Jensen, Sigurd Persson, Simon Gate, Bjorn Winblad, Rorstrand, David-Andersen and many many others.
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